Chapter 7 Managing Visiting Scholars’ Program during the COVID-19 Pandemic Miguel Cordova, Karla Maria Nava-Aguirre and Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez Abstract International mobility outgoing and incoming from almost every university around the world is not just oriented to highly educative standards among them, but to enhance the development of international competences for students, as well as for academics. While students’ mobility are mostly an individual effort that implies individual consequences, academics’ mobility involve several resources from universities and trigger collective processes such as research collaboration, visiting lecturers, exchange experiences and best practices meetings, plenary sessions, classes, among others. This case study aims to provide insights about how planned activities related for/with visiting international scholars suffer major disruption and collateral dam- ages when an unplanned and unexpected global crisis occurs, which forces them to react immediately under different real-time decisions and nonex- istent protocols. The chapter focuses on Latin America, using the case of the Global Business Week organized by Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM) in Mexico, and involving visiting scholars from Peru and Colombia. Keywords: Internationalization of higher education; COVID-19; pandemic; academic mobility; international mobility; health crisis; visiting scholars Introduction It’s moving fast, against the wind. (Boromir in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring) Q1 International Case Studies in the Management of Disasters, 143–153 Copyright © 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited All rights of reproduction in any form reserved doi:10.1108/978-1-83982-186-820201009